Business Challenge
Having been designed to be highly available, allnatura’s server infrastructure at its primary datacenter suffered from a single point of failure. The weak point was a dependency on a single, shared central memory. Consequently the company began looking for a new solution that would mirror data and therefore dramatically increase resiliency.
Solution
allnatura used exone and its integration partner NEWERKLA to develop a strategy for high availability that leveraged StorMagic SvSAN, and two identical servers. SvSAN uses the underlying internal storage of the two servers, ensuring that virtual machines and storage are mirrored and highly available.
Why StorMagic
The reliable, resilient solution protects allnatura’s data, eliminating the threat of downtime, while StorMagic’s licensing model allows additional compute and storage capacities to be increased without additional cost or disruption. This allows allnatura to upgrade their basic two node cluster easily and affordably, permitting them the flexibility to carry out the upgrades when needed and without impacting business performance.
Technical Configuration
SvSAN License | SvSAN 12TB Gold |
Servers | Two SuperMicro Servers |
Memory | 32GB memory per Server |
Disks | 2x 12TB SSD Storage |
Network | 10 Gb iSCSI Networking |
Hypervisor | VMware vSphere Hypervisor |
Applications | Databases, ERP and Production Applications |
Reliable
Designed for 100% uptime, minimizing disruption, keeping data secure, and protecting against disasters.
Simple
Create high availability clusters using any two x86 servers and ‘set and forget’ deployment and management.
Lower Cost
Lightweight architecture and flexible system requirements reduce hardware, software and operating costs.
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